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Photos: Kenya elections – Men watch the incoming provisional election results on a television outside a shop in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya's capital, March 5, 2013.

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Photos: Kenya elections – An armed security officer guards ballot boxes on March 5, 2013 that have yet to be tallied in Kakamega, western Kenya, a day after the country held national elections.

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Photos: Kenya elections – The Presiding Officer from the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) shows presidential ballots for counting at a polling station at the Oloolua Primary School in the town of Ngong on March 4, 2013.

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Photos: Kenya elections – Poll officials count ballots at a polling centre following Kenya's national elections on March 4, 2013 in the country's western province in Kakamega.

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Photos: Kenya elections – Shadows of a long queue of voters is cast upon the road, just before voting is due to close, in downtown Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, on March 4, 2013 as Kenyans vote in general elections.

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Photos: Kenya elections – A man shows his inked finger, which marks that he has voted in Kangemi, Nairobi.

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Photos: Kenya elections – Election officer shows presidential ballots for counting at a polling station at the Oloolua Primary School as voting closes in the town of Ngong, outside of Nairobi.

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Photos: Kenya elections – An election observer sits beside sealed ballot boxes after the close of voting at the Oloolua Primary School as voting closes.

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Photos: Kenya elections – A voting assistant stacks ballot papers marked with a vote for presidential candidate Raila Odinga to an assistant at the Olympic Primary School in Kibera, Nairobi on March 4, 2013.

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Photos: Kenya elections – Maasai tribes-people leave after voting in Ilngarooj, Kajiado South County, Maasailand, on March 4, 2013 during Kenya's elections.

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Photos: Kenya elections – People stand in line to cast their vote at a polling stations in Kisumu, western Kenya on March 4, 2013 during the nationwide elections.

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Photos: Kenya elections – Close up of Hawa Hassan's, a Nubian born in Kibera in 1953, identity card as she gets ready to vote at the Old Kibera Primary School in Nairobi on March 4, 2013 during the nationwide elections. Nubians, originally from Sudan, have suffered statelessness for many years in Kenya since they were brought into the country as soldiers for the British in the early 1900s and settled in 'Kibra' meaning 'forest' in Nubian.

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Photos: Kenya elections – Kenyan women carrying her baby casts her ballot at a polling booth in the Mathare, in Nairobi on March 4, 2013 during the elections.

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Photos: Kenya elections – A voter puts a ballot paper into the senatorial box as voting kicked off in Kenya on March 4, 2013 in the country's western province in Kakamega. Long lines of Kenyans queued from far before dawn to vote Monday in critical elections, the first since violent polls five years ago, with five policemen killed in an ambush in Mombasa hours before polling started.

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Photos: Kenya elections – An elederly Maasai woman casts her vote in Ilngarooj, Kajiado County, Maasailand, on March 4, 2013.

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Photos: Kenya elections – Kenyans voters queuing for the presidential elections at the Kisumu Social Centre, one of the largest polling stations in Kisumu town in western Kenya March 4, 2013.

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Photos: Kenya elections – Kenya's Deputy Prime Minister and presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta speaks to the press after casting his vote at the Mutomo primary school in Kiambu, north of Nairobi on March 4, 2013 during the nationwide elections.

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Photos: Kenya elections – Kenyan Prime Minister and presidential candidate Raila Odinga releases a dove at a rally in Nyayo Stadium in Nairobi on March 2, 2013, on the last day of campaigning, 48 hours ahead of presidential, gubernatorial and senatorial elections.

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Photos: Kenya elections – Kenyans in the Dandora neighborhood of Nairobi wait to vote at James Gichuru Primary School on March 4, 2013.